shore. rescue workers return to shore. we'll have the very latest with our homeland security editor. >> and a cold winter ahead . >> and a cold winter ahead. charities warn pensioners could face the worst winter on record with a £500 jump in their energy bills due to labour's decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance . this as the average allowance. this as the average household energy bill is set to rise by 10%. >> celebrating el—sisi special day, locals have lined streets decorated with pink ribbons to celebrate the life of seven year old elsie dot stancombe killed in the southport knife attack. >> and is labour the party of cancel culture? nearly 600 academics, including richard dawkins, have signed a letter urging the education secretary to rethink her decision to scrap the free speech act. they're warning that without action, staff and students could be hounded , censored and silenced hounded, censored and silenced for holding legitimate legal views. >> and kill a dog remains on the loose. police have caught two dogs believed to have attacked a man found dead in a back garden

in birmingham , but one dog could in birmingham, but one dog could still be at large . still be at large. right, well, big story. today is of course, energy bills. now charities are warning that pensioners, some pensioners, could see their bills rise by as much as £500. yeah. >> and could it also be a double whammy for pensioners. because of course most of them or some of course most of them or some of them at least have lost their winter fuel payments, creating that £500 figure. so do get in touch if you have been affected by this price cap price cap increase even gb views gb views. sorry gbnews.com/yoursay something like that, something like that. you know the drill. i was about to give you the old email address, but no screen on the website. now there you go. >> it's on the screen. yeah gbnews.com/yoursay please do get in touch. worrying time to think that bills could be rising by so much. of course, keir starmer in

the past has talked about how it's a travesty when the energy price cap goes up. he's talked about how he's going to bring energy bills down. of course, he's putting a lot of power in the hands of ed miliband as well. the energy secretary. now to get all this gb green energy going and the like. does he have the answers? how concerned are you. we'd like to read out some real life stories really this afternoon on the show because it's real people that are impacted by these hikes. >> and the energy secretary or the shadow energy secretary saying this morning that instead of prioritising cheap energy, the new labour government are pursuing ed miliband's reckless net zero targets without thought for the cost. and that's an interesting point, isn't it? are we going too hard with net zero, increasing the cost of energy for the average person in great britain and for the big thinkers, big thinkers out there? >> please do let me know what you make of the whole concept of an energy price cap. it doesn't seem to be much of a cap when it goes up and down all the time. please do let us know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. but it's thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. but wsfime thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. but it's time for the headlines with

sofia. >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it'sjust >> good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 12:00. your headlines as you've been heanng your headlines as you've been hearing , italian rescue divers hearing, italian rescue divers have found the body of the last missing person believed to be mike lynchs daughter. after the british tech entrepreneurs yacht sank off sicily this week . these sank off sicily this week. these are some live pictures coming to us from sicily. 18 year old hannah lynch was the last remaining person missing after the sinking of the bayesian on monday. six bodies have been found in the search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average £1,717 from october, adding around £12 a month to an average bill. ofgem said that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices,

energy and net zero. secretary ed miliband says he understands people's concerns. >> i know this will be really worrying for news lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter, andifs greater struggles this winter, and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that are controlled by dictators and thatis are controlled by dictators and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. our mission for clean home—grown power that we control in this country. >> in other news, match of the day and one show host, jermaine jenas has been sacked amid claims of inappropriate behaviour. it's been reported the termination followed allegations involving digital communications, such as allegedly sending unsolicited texts to a junior member of staff. the news broke yesterday afternoon while jermaine was on air with talksport. >> it's being reported that you

sent unsolicited texts to a female member of staff at the one show. is that true? >> there's like i said, i'm not happy about this situation. you know, i'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it is all i can say right now. i'm not i'm not happy at all about the outcome of this. but, i've got to leave it in the hands of the lawyers right now. >> were you surprised that any complaint was made against you ? complaint was made against you? >> i can't really talk, maybe as much . i can't really talk right much. i can't really talk right now . how. >> now. >> now, the funeral of elsie dot stancombe, who died in the southport attack , is underway southport attack, is underway today as her parents released a new photo of their truly unforgettable daughter. the seven year old was one of three girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in the merseyside town last month. her family said they want today to be known as el—sisi special day

and a celebration of her life in the us. vice president kamala harris was has formally accepted the democratic nomination for president on the final night of the party convention in chicago. she also took aim at her opposition candidate during her speech. the vice president went on to say the only client, donald trump has ever served is himself. mr >> consider the power he will have , especially after the have, especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution . just from criminal prosecution. just imagine donald trump with no guardrails, but america. we are not going back. we are not going back to domestic politics now. >> and tory leadership candidate tom tugendhat has apologised for

record migration figures during the conservative's time in power. he sat down with our political editor, christopher hopein political editor, christopher hope in this exclusive chat. >> on immigration, how do we finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through the door? >> look . absolutely. and you >> look. absolutely. and you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> was it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society. and what's your level can integrate? well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and sort of 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> and police have now caught two of the three dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham, west midlands police say the 33 year old man, who was looking after

his brother's dogs, was found deadin his brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with bite marks . those are the with bite marks. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back. it's 12:08. now, rescue divers have found the last body believed to be michael lynch's 18 year old daughter, hannah, following the british superyacht that sank off the coast of sicily earlier this week. >> yes, this comes as a manslaughter investigation has reportedly reportedly been launched by the italian authorities. >> we're joining us now is our home and security editor, mark white. mark, thank you for joining us. the italian coastguard has said this morning

they've compared the sunken yacht to trying to search an 18 story building full of water. this has not been an easy task for them. >> yeah, it's been incredibly complex because the yacht itself is lying some 50m down on the seabed. it's full of water, as you say, and of course all the furnishings, all the loose bits and pieces that you would get inside any vessel are there. they're floating, blocking the passageways, making it incredibly difficult for the dive teams to locate anyone inside to get into there in the first place, to be able to search, and they're limited because of the depth to 12 minutes at a time, you know, so very little time to get inside this yacht to and start doing the kind of operations that they're supposed to be doing. we're looking now at images , we're looking now at images, actually, of the, the, the main port there in porticello, where the fire service and paramedics are gathered as the, the body of

we believe hannah lynch, the 18 year old daughter of mike lynch is now being brought ashore by those dive teams, having located her a little earlier this morning, it was a you know, it wasn't easy. of course , but wasn't easy. of course, but because that was the last of the those that were missing to be recovered, they were able to get in there and to remove that body relatively quickly. and now we'll begin the formal process of identifying the last of the victims. >> this has been a hideous, hideous tragedy to watch unfold. it happened in just a matter of minutes. if not, you know, hours. it's hideous, we now know the body of mike lynch, daughter has been found. but now there's some talk. or at least some early reports that there may be a manslaughter investigation. do we know what this is about?

>> yeah. i mean, i think that really stands to reason. there are some serious questions for the crews to be able to the captain in particular, that has to answer with regard to the actions that he did or didn't take during this storm, we heard on monday, not long after this boat had gone down from an eyewitness, a captain of another vessel that was anchored just nearby in the bay there, about half a mile offshore. and when this storm blew in, he started his engine pulled up the anchor and steered his vessel into the wind, which is what you're supposed to do. now, it may well be that this just didn't happen on the bayesian , and that's why on the bayesian, and that's why it was blown over, that it was facing side. on to that very significant storm that blew in and reports of a waterspout that

may have hit the boat. the ship , may have hit the boat. the ship, or we should say the yacht directly and may have been what pushed that yacht over. so there will be those questions that the captain needs to answer. what, if anything, they did. did they have actually anybody on the bndge? have actually anybody on the bridge? you would think with a crew of ten, because there were 12 passengers on board and a crew of ten, there would have been enough personnel to be able to ensure that the bridge was manned 24 hours a day. was someone on the bridge? what efforts did they take? did they alert any of the passengers below? all of that will factor into the investigators probe as they go forward. >> reports suggest that the yachtis >> reports suggest that the yacht is largely intact on the seabed.is yacht is largely intact on the seabed. is there a possibility that they could attempt to raise the vessel in order to help their investigation into exactly what happened? >> i think that's a definite possibility. now, the italian

coastguard were asked that very question just a day or two ago and said that wasn't in their thinking at the moment because they were in a recovery operation. they wanted to ensure that all those missing were found and recovered. that has now been done. and they've said once that sort of search and rescue, which then became a recovery operation had concluded, then they may well look with the assistance of salvage experts at raising the vessel itself, that would certainly help with the investigation. but to be honest, the divers going down there will have made assessments as well . have made assessments as well. they will have taken photographs of the wreck and if indeed they can go back down and carry out the types of survey that would assist the investigators going forward . so, for instance, where forward. so, for instance, where the hatches left open, they'll be able to determine that fairly quickly because one of the concerns is that because it was

hot in in that area at that time, that the hatches may have been opened to just cool down the yacht, but in doing that, that would have aided the sinking of the vessel very quickly as well. so they can photograph that they can also look at the keel. it had a retractable keel on the yacht as well. now that should be down really in this kind of weather conditions because it helps stabilise the yacht . so they'll stabilise the yacht. so they'll be able to tell whether the keel was retracted or whether indeed it was down, if it was retracted. that is another mark against potentially the captain there as well. and they'll look at the general damage to the vessel itself. initial reports from the divers suggested there wasn't much in the way of damage that this yacht looked to be fully intact. >> yes, and i was reading that it can be a very costly process to lift a ship off the floor of the sea there as well. the, the

chief executive of the firm that built this boat has spoken out and said , essentially, there's and said, essentially, there's nothing wrong with the way we've designed this boat, he's very much blamed human error for this disaster. so it'll be very interesting to see if that is what it was completely about. yeah. defending the boat. >> this is giovanni constantino from the firm that designed and built the boat. italian sea group. he's the ceo of that firm, and he was very clear in his mind. i mean, he described it as unsinkable, but it was just ridiculous, obviously. but he did see that, you know, it was very safe. the boats and the way that it had been designed and built. and he pointed the finger firmly at the crew and suggested that it was human error that may have resulted in this boat sinking. so some real

questions from james for james cutfield, who is the skipper of this boat to answer, he's already been questioned for, i think up to two hours by italian police . prosecutors, police. prosecutors, incidentally, are due to give a news conference tomorrow. tomorrow morning in a neighbouring town. so that may well be to confirm that they are launching a formal manslaughter investigation into what happened on monday. >> wow. okay. well, thank you very much indeed. mark white. our homeland security editor. thank you sir. yes, sir. the latest that there could be a press conference tomorrow to find out more. whether there is a manslaughter investigation. there's lots of questioning of the captain , it seems. the captain, it seems. >> and we'll keep you right up to date here on gb news on that press conference tomorrow. but coming up , press conference tomorrow. but coming up, households are set to face higher energy bills this winter . and we want to know if winter. and we want to know if what it means for you. we're discussing all of that after this

>> well, welcome back to good afternoon britain . it is now. afternoon britain. it is now. 1221 lots of you have been getting in touch already about the energy price cap hike. those energy bills look like they're

going to go quite a bit higher, particularly for pensioners with this winter fuel allowance. rowena doesn't like being called a pensioner. actually, she says, i'm a pensioner and i get fed up with the label where parents, grandparents, friends, etc. with a lifetime of experience behind you. i don't mean to be rude by using the term pensioner. i'm sorry, it's just a collective. in the winter, fuel allowance is for pensioners and alas, that is going to be scrapped. in part, it certainly is. >> mel says the solution to energy prices is to frack, make it a condition of permission to frack , that any gas must be sold frack, that any gas must be sold to gb only as in great britain only. that's the point, i suppose. >> i don't think ed miliband is going to let anything be fracked in this country, do you? >> he likes his green energy, doesn't he? absolutely not. >> not. but it's worth pointing out because in the united states they don't have this massive problem with energy, which is why they've got much more growth in their economy, at least for now. although things are looking a little bit, a little bit dodgy over there as well. well, they are self reliant. >> i suppose that's what labour is planning to do with this great british energy. that's true, that's true. we'll have to wait and see if that works. bill says i have been told by my

suppuer says i have been told by my supplier that my direct debit will go up by £147 a month. wow. we have heating on 24 over seven dunng we have heating on 24 over seven during cold spells. as my wife is housebound and disabled after after cancer and a stroke was really sorry to hear that bill, but of course this just shows that many households have different issues and are genuinely going to struggle with this, aren't they? >> yeah, bill, do get in touch and let me know if you're a pensioner and that you won't be receiving the winter fuel allowance. perhaps you're younger than that. i don't know, but do let us know a little bit more information on that. that does seem a huge increase, particularly if you're at home all the time. anyway, we're joined now by our political correspondent, olivia utley to talk about the political implications of this, or at least the politics behind this move. keir starmer, not too long ago, was very angry with the conservatives about the energy price cap and how it had been hiked and how energy bills were so high. he's promised to bring them down a month, in a month or so into the job. they're going up. >> well, exactly . and it is a

>> well, exactly. and it is a real headache for the government. obviously this is going to have a huge effect on ordinary people like we've heard from some of our viewers there. it is a much smaller hike than we saw in january last year , but we saw in january last year, but the last two winters have been relatively mild. if this price hike comes hand in hand with a cold winter, then you could see real problems for pensioners. and of course it's put enormous pressure on rachel reeves to delay that scrapping or the massive cutting down of that winter fuel allowance. 10 million pensioners are expecting to lose their winter fuel allowance before the winter kicks in. and it could be really, really difficult for them. the other issue for the government, well, there are multiple issues that this raises for the government. one of them is that high energy prices aren't just for households. they're also for businesses. and ultimately they make businesses much , much less competitive, as much, much less competitive, as we saw when the bills hiked last time. lots of pubs, lots of

restaurants who just about managed to survive covid ended up having to close down. now thatis up having to close down. now that is the last thing the labour government wants. the labour government wants. the labour government wants. the labour government has promised growth. it's expecting growth. we're already seeing inflation going down, interest rates going down. on the whole, it looked like a pretty good economic backdrop or at least an improving economic backdrop for this. labour government. but this. labour government. but this throws all of that out of the picture. really, really tough for labour. the other thing, of course, which i think you mentioned a little bit earlier, is the spotlight . it's earlier, is the spotlight. it's going to throw on labour's green energy plans. you could argue that because ed miliband in particular is racing. so quickly towards net zero, it's ending up putting energy prices up for ordinary people. and that is what claire coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, has argued this morning. so this is going to be a real headache for the new government on lots and lots of different fronts. >> it absolutely is going to be a headache. and as you know, the

gb energy, it might sound like a nice idea. it might be quite popular when people are polled about it, but what people really want is cheaper energy bills. they don't necessarily mind where it's coming from . yeah, where it's coming from. yeah, they'd prefer greener energy supplies, of course, but if those numbers don't go down in their bills, then it's, you know, it's another thing, isn't it? really? yeah. >> perhaps to get people on side. you certainly need them to be a lot cheaper than perhaps they would currently be with these net zero targets. so we'll have to wait and see on that one. >> absolutely. thank you very much, olivia. we'll catch up with you a little bit later on. now, i believe we're joined by one of our gb viewers, which is fantastic. william pick up william, thank you very much indeed for joining william, thank you very much indeed forjoining us this indeed for joining us this afternoon. i mean, what do you make of the news today that the price cap is going up and that pensioners could see their bills rise by £500? >> well, good afternoon, emily and cameron. >> very nice to see you, well, it's a bit of a disaster, i think, for the labour government. this. the timing couldn't be worse. as olivia said, this is going to cause all sorts of problems . they've just

sorts of problems. they've just taken £200 off 10 million. 9 million pensioners at the same time as bills are about to rise. it's a complete disaster , from it's a complete disaster, from my point of view, i've fixed my bill back in june , so i'm quite bill back in june, so i'm quite fortunate i won't be affected , fortunate i won't be affected, particularly by this. but out of those 10 million people, i know, the government's view is that there'll be a significant number who don't need the £200. but how many ? 3 million? 4 million? many? 3 million? 4 million? 5 million. you're still going to have millions of people who are going to have to get very cold and freeze at times , because and freeze at times, because they haven't got this winter fuel payment. it sounds completely bizarre that we've got a labour government doing this to pensioners . this to pensioners. >> i suppose it's interesting to see how, of course, we've had all these different prices going up, particularly with energy, but also food and supermarkets. inflation has been a big issue , inflation has been a big issue, particularly in the last year or so. do you think the biggest

issue this this winter, william , issue this this winter, william, issue this this winter, william, is going to be the energy price cap increase ? cap increase? >> for some people, definitely , >> for some people, definitely, because inflation is down now, as we know, to a 2% or whatever it is. and so the food prices have pretty much stabilised, even though there's still high, but for some people this this has been a lifeline to get £200 and have that taken away from them. and on top of that, they know they're going to have to pay know they're going to have to pay another 150. and the other thing is the timing of this people haven't got i was lucky i managed to save from january a bit extra pay, more on my bill every month. so i've got a bit of a war chest, but many of these people haven't got the opfion these people haven't got the option to do that, and certainly not now. with autumn and winter almost upon us. >> and william, how much faith do you have in ed miliband's green energy revolution? lots of money is going to be pumped into gb energy now. ed miliband thinks all the gb viewers will absolutely love gb energy because it sounds a bit like the

channel because it sounds a bit like the channel, but are you keen on the idea , idea, >> is it possible to have less than zero faith in this project? i mean, it's , it's i mean, it's i mean, it's, it's i mean, it's a completely it sounds great, doesn't it? free energy for all. and it comes from wind. what can be green and what can be better? the reality is even the even the regulator and the power generators have said we'd need to re cable britain to get the amount of electricity we're going to need if we switch gas off and everyone have electric cars, that alone the recabling of britain, they estimate it will cost £3 trillion. i mean, this is just fantasy. >> sorry, william. i was going to say, what does labour need to do to get the british public onside when it comes to meeting these net zero targets? because if the energy is so much more expensive when it comes to net zero, what are they going to do about it at some point in the future when we do actually need net zero energy? >> well, i think they have to accept realism in the first place, which is to admit that

gas and oil are going to be required for a lot longer than the next five years. they're probably going to all the experts. most of the experts are saying by 2050. so that's the first thing. and then have a sensible policy for trying to. somebody mentioned on the programme earlier frack or or carry out extracting gas from the north sea and allow that to happen and show people what starmer has been saying for years that he's on their side. >> yeah, yeah, i think a lot of people would agree with you. it's got to be pragmatic rather than too dogmatic and ideological. i mean , ideological. i mean, fundamentally people need to be able to keep their homes warm. don't they? particularly in the winter. william pickup, thank you very much indeed. i hope to speak to you again. thank you for coming on. you're a gb viewer and also concerned with our energy policy . really. we've our energy policy. really. we've got some more views. >> oh , george says hello. george >> oh, george says hello. george says good afternoon emily and cameron . i received the winter cameron. i received the winter fuel allowance but now they are putting prices up again and i will not be putting my heating on. i will not be ripped off to

fill the pockets of greedy fuel companies and their shareholders . companies and their shareholders. i say, what has labour ever done for pensioners? absolutely nothing. >> well, this is another point, isn't it? lots of people saying a lot of the charities that have got involved in this, in this area of policy are saying, you know, it's not just the government to blame, but also these companies are making so much profits. i mean, i don't know who really is to blame, but i'm starting to think, what's the point of an energy price cap at all? indeed. and it can just shift like this all the time. is it actually keeping those bills down or is it just artificial? >> but also, what i don't get this morning is that labour and conservatives seems to be blaming each other for the problem we've had this morning, that labour is saying it's the legacy of a tory government, and then the tories are saying it's all down to these net zero policies, which ed miliband is pushing. so who are we meant to believe here. >> yeah. and john says labour just care about the unions. well yes. lots of people are saying, you know, you're taking away the winter fuel allowance. is that to pay directly into the pockets of the train drivers? i mean, this money doesn't come from

anywhere. it doesn't grow on trees. then you've got dale vince, who's the eco tycoon who's backed the labour party with donations in the past, saying, hang on, the answer to all of this is just tax the rich more. do you buy into that idea? >> interesting. >> interesting. >> we'll keep those views coming in. >> this is good afternoon britain. lots more still to come on today's show. we're outside the new broadcasting house in central london as the match of the day and one show presenter, jermaine jenas, is sacked from the bbc. more on that after your headunes the bbc. more on that after your headlines with sophia . headlines with sophia. >> cameron. thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 1230. your headunes it's just gone 1230. your headlines italian rescue divers have found the body of the last missing person, believed to be mike lynchs daughter, after the british tech entrepreneurs yacht sank off sicily this week , 18 sank off sicily this week, 18 year old hannah lynch was the last remaining person missing after the sinking of the bayocean on monday. six bodies

have been found in the search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average £1,717 from october, adding around £12 a month to an average bill. ofgem said that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices, energy and net zero. secretary ed miliband says he understands people's concerns. >> i know this will be really worrying news for lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter, andifs greater struggles this winter, and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that are controlled by dictators. and thatis are controlled by dictators. and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. our mission for clean home—grown power that we control in this country .

we control in this country. >> match of the day. and one show host, jermaine jenas, has been sacked amid claims of inappropriate behaviour. it's been reported the termination followed allegations involving digital communications, such as allegedly sending unsolicited texts to junior members of staff. that's according to the mail. police have now caught two of the three dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found deadin to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham. west midlands police say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, was found deadin his brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with bite marks and flights have been cancelled and drivers urged to take care as storm lilian sweeps across parts of the uk ahead of what could be the busiest august bank holiday on the roads on record. strong winds of up to 80mph are forecast, with travel disruption, flooding, power cuts and dangerous conditions near

coastal areas likely. meanwhile, two stages at leeds festival have closed for the day due to the high winds caused by storm. lilian those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> welcome back. it's 1237. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain with me, emily and cameron. now another scandal at the bbc. another day, another scandal at the bbc because the match of the day and one show host jermaine jenas has been sacked. >> yes, he is facing claims of inappropriate behaviour and the news broke yesterday afternoon whilst he was on air with

talksport. take a listen. >> you know i'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it. he's all i can say right now. i'm not, i'm not happy at all about the outcome of this , but, about the outcome of this, but, i've got to leave it in the hands of the lawyers right now. >> were you surprised that any complaint was made against you? >> yeah. there's two sides to this whole thing. and, you know, my lawyers are going to be taking over from now on. >> okay. well, joining us now is our reporter , ray addison, who our reporter, ray addison, who is outside new broadcasting house.i is outside new broadcasting house. i mean, ray, what do we know about this? he was on talksport. was it yesterday? is he has he also been taken off air with that, with that. radio show as well? radio broadcaster. what's the what's the latest . what's the what's the latest. >> yeah. well we understand he was presenting the i think talksport drivetime show at the time. in fact, the news of his sacking had come in. we were told just before he went on air, but there wasn't anybody else that could replace him. so the

decision was to go ahead with that broadcast. then later on, he gave an interview to talksport news where we saw those clips there. those comments that he made where he kind of didn't really give a lot of details other than to say that he was very unhappy with the situation and he was going to be talking to his lawyers with talksport. he is no longer scheduled to be presenting with them at this time, and also he works with tnt sport, doing commentating on formula e, and we understand he's not scheduled to be doing any work with them as well for the next month or so. it's been dropped by his agent, mick saatchi. his profile page has been taken off of their website. apparently over in the bbc headquarters in manchester. there's a poster of bbc sport that he featured in that's been removed, and so there's a lot of work underway at the moment. it would appear as people sort of turn against the former england footballer professional footballer professional footballer to try and sort of

distance themselves from him. but yes, the story broke yesterday by the sun newspaper and it follows complaints of reported complaints of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace made to a female member of staff on the one show he's been hosting on and off on the one show since 2020. she reportedly received what the sun's describing as flirty text messages, and contacted a member of staff, presumably a senior member of bbc staff. they then launched an immediate investigation and during that period, apparently more women came forward. there's also been reports today that since his sacking, other women have reportedly come forward too. and so it seems that there is a sort of a swell of sort of people coming forward at this time, in terms of the questions that remain, you know, in that interview that jermaine jenas gave. you know, he really didn't comment much. he didn't say whether it concerned more than one colleague. he didn't say if he was surprised that a

complaint had been made against him. he didn't say when he'd been sacked. but we obviously the bbc has faced criticism over its handling of some recent scandals , particularly the huw scandals, particularly the huw edwards situation. they were criticised that it took so long before he left the corporation and of course he resigned. he wasn't fired and it seems like the bbc is really trying to get ahead of this a little bit. in fact, the independent's reporting that a message was sent by iphone by alex k joel cauchi , the head of sport with cauchi, the head of sport with the bbc. sent a message from his iphone simply saying, hello all, i wanted to let you know that jermaine jenas is no longer working with the bbc. thanks alex. so very short and snappy message which reportedly just simply shocked a lot of his colleagues. and i think maybe what we're seeing here is following all of that criticism of recent scandals. bbc really, really trying to get ahead of it. it means he's no longer going to be working on the one show. he's no longer going to be presenting or commentating on

match of the day, or doing any other football work with the bbc, which, you know, he had been seen as a possible replacement one day for gary lineker and it's been estimated that he's being paid or was being paid by the bbc around £195,000. and so that that source of income that revenue to him has now gone. the sun's reporting that his wife of 13 years, ellie, is saying that she will stand by his side. she's a former model. she's the mother of three of his four children. so that's the latest in terms of that. but of course, that will be a very difficult time for the family. and of course, we you know, this is just the latest scandal that the bbc has been hit with, you know, most recently the strictly come dancing scandal huw edwards, which i've, which i've mentioned as well. and the bbc is really trying to crack down on this. they announced that they have confirmed plans for an independent review of workplace culture here at the bbc over concerns about the potential for inappropriate workplace

behaviour. particularly, they say, in creative and editorial environments. and so it seems that there is just now a zero tolerance approach . tolerance approach. >> ray addison from outside bbc's broadcasting house. thank you very much for that. i mean , you very much for that. i mean, it's there's been a number of scandals now with the bbc. of course, we've had huw edwards and now we've had jermaine jenas. of course, there's absolutely no suggestion of illegality with the jermaine jenas case. and he says there are two sides to every story. he is consulting lawyers, but what does this say about perhaps the culture of broadcasters like the bbc and also itv have had their own similar share of scandals about abuse, of power, of somebody in a senior position, a presenter or a well—known individual in a senior position. kind of allegedly taking advantage of a junior member of staff. >> was it the types of people that go into broadcasting ? that go into broadcasting? perhaps. you know, perhaps there's a level of arrogance there. he's had a very successful career, you know, what makes you think you can just sort of do whatever you

like and if people don't raise complaints at the time, you think you're getting away with it, but it's just because there's a fear factor, isn't there? if you're an underling. but it looks like yet another metoo moment at the bbc. >> yes, lots of allegations, but the difference with this case, i think, is the bbc have acted incredibly quickly on these allegations. and of course we have to stress they are only allegations and jermaine clearly is consulting lawyers and says there's two sides to every story. but we'll keep you up to date on that one. >> i mean, it is interesting, isn't it? already dropped by his agency, dropped by the bbc, dropped by talksport, probably tnt as well. it is when allegations like this come out, everyone wants to completely distance themselves from you. who knows what will come out, but we'll be following it for you, so we'll let you know. this is of course good afternoon britain. we're on gb news now. coming up, ministers have been accused by some of britain's most eminent academics, including richard dawkins of giving into cancel culture. this all relates to freedom of speech within universities for staff and students. we're going to be speaking to one of the academics who have signed a letter to the

education secretary. after this

>> welcome back. it's 1248. you're watching. good afternoon britain on gb news now. education secretary bridget phillipson. she's suspended legislation that would have forced universities to defend free speech on campus. but academics have hit back , calling academics have hit back, calling for her to rethink the decision. they've warned a failure to act would allow staff and students to be and i quote, hounded, censored and silenced. >> yes , indeed. well, we're >> yes, indeed. well, we're joined by professor of law at swansea law school, andrew tettenborn. great to see you, andrew. now, i understand you've signed this letter to the education secretary, the accusation here is that essentially, bridget doesn't care enough about free speech and this move to get rid of this free speech act that was brought

in by the conservatives will leave students and staff at risk of basically being cancelled for legitimate speech . legitimate speech. >> yeah, i think that's right, this government, i've had the impression for a bit of time doesn't really get free speech, it's desperate for a chance to control the discourse in the pubuc control the discourse in the public sphere . i think you've public sphere. i think you've also got to remember that one group of people who hated the free speech legislation, because it would involve them in extra work with the university , work with the university, university administrators . and university administrators. and it's an open secret that large numbers of them together with vice chancellors, bent the ear of labour shadow ministers and said, look, if you get in when you get in, might you be able to do something about this pesky freedom of speech act because

they find it much easier of course, just to be able to wing it and say, well, this speech might cause offence, this speech might cause offence, this speech might cause offence, this speech might cause trouble on campus. why don't we just cancel it for safety reasons , to enable safety reasons, to enable students to feel safe or what ever. eve r. >> even >> you say your line is breaking up ever so slightly, but i'll put another question to you in the hope that you can. you can hean the hope that you can. you can hear. so bridget phillipson, she said, she said last month she said, she said last month she said that the act isn't isn't fit for purpose because it could expose students to harm and appalling hate speech on campuses. i mean, where's the evidence of that, andrew, as you understand it, or is there none ? understand it, or is there none? i think we've lost andrew. andrew, it's actually rather difficult to find. >> let's start with let's start with hate speech. hate speech is

already illegal. if i speak at a university in such a way as to cause racial hatred or with intent to cause religious hatred, i am already guilty of a criminal offence. and the university has every reason to stop me, and it has every right to stop me , so i don't think to stop me, so i don't think that's a particularly good excuse. and the other thing is, when you talk about harm to students, what do you mean ? if students, what do you mean? if you mean offence to students ? you mean offence to students? well, i'm sorry, but that's what freedom of speech is about. freedom of speech within a university. provided that you don't cause offence to a particular interest group isn't worth having in the first place. >> andrew, a government source, has told the times that we make no apology for pausing the tories hate speech charter, which would have allowed anti—semites and holocaust deniers free reign on campuses. what do you say to that ?

what do you say to that? >> well, it comes back to what i said earlier anti—semites. if i go on cameron norrie. >> sorry, andrew, we're going to have to end the interview there because your lie—in, unfortunately, is a sickening, but yes, i mean, this is the thing, isn't it, it depends whether you think there are some speakers out there who should absolutely never be given a platform . and it goes back to platform. and it goes back to remember when nick griffin from the bnp was given a platform on bbc's question time. yes. a lot of people, a lot of people said that was actually a good thing because people heard what he had to say and they rejected it. and the bnp declined. in support, and there was a lack of appetite for his brand of, of politics and his views. so i'm wary of anyone, maybe within some limitations, being no platform because you've seen students try and deplatform the likes of jacob rees—mogg or protesting at

even the thought of nigel farage turning up at their university when he's been invited by one group of people, one group of students, to give a talk. i mean, why do students and indeed staff need to be model coddled? so much that they can't even be exposed to other views? i mean, you can see the views on the internet. >> yeah. i mean, it's a very fine balance, perhaps, between free speech and hate speech. but one of the main points of the university perhaps is critical thinking being exposed to different points of view and being able to make up your own mind and have your free mind to speak what you think, i don't know, i just think there are some warning signs coming from the labour government at the moment. >> when it does come to freedom of speech. i mean, is bridget phillipson just caving in to cancel culture here? would she be happy to see people that she doesn't agree with not be able to speak at universities up and down this country ? i worry that down this country? i worry that maybe she would be happy with that, to be honest. yeah but where's the line? yeah, where is the line? let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com forward slash your say. but nearly 600

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gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:00 on friday. the 23rd of august. >> i'm cameron walker and i'm emily carver. >> breaking news a body believed to be that of michael lynchs daughter, hannah. the sixth and final person missing after a luxury yacht sank in the storm off the coast of sicily, has

been found, according to the italian coastguard. liv. and we will have some live shots shortly to bring you. >> we will indeed. now a cold winter ahead. it could be. charities warn pensioners could face the worst winter on record, with a £500 jump in their energy bills due to labour's decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance. this, as the average household energy bill is set to rise by 10%, is labour. >> the party of cancel culture. nearly 600 academics, including richard dawkins, have signed a letter urging the education secretary to rethink her decision to scrap the free speech act. they are warning that without action, staff and students could be hounded, censored and silenced for holding legitimate legal views. >> and if this painting really is the first ever portrait of william shakespeare, it could be worth a whopping £200 million. is it the real deal or much ado about nothing ?

about nothing? this is a wild story, isn't it, cameron? this man, i believe he's a window cleaner. yeah, he's a window cleaner. yeah, he's got this painting he discovered in his in his home. and it could be a portrait of william shakespeare. and if so, could be worth a hell of a lot of money. yeah >> imagine having that hanging in your bathroom. i mean, it's weird because the photograph itself or the image itself doesn't look like the usual william shakespeare painting. we're used to . but if it is we're used to. but if it is authenticated, which we believe, it , it has authenticated, which we believe, it, it has been could be worth up to £200 million. pretty sensational. would he get the money? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and i like your pun about much ado about nothing. yeah. there you go. >> i'm sure we can think of some more. yeah. >> send in some shakespeare puns for us to keep us entertained. >> yeah, but lots of you have been getting in touch. quite a few of you really worried, actually, about the hike in energy bills. liz has got in touch. she says winter was bad enough over the last couple of years. i'm really scared about this one. i move into one room and wrap up in blankets, she

says food is expensive, but it is essential. how cruel are these people who clearly don't care about the elderly suffering and possibly dying? how do they sleep at night? consents liz, that you're you're very worried indeed.i that you're you're very worried indeed. i really hope that you can get some support with your energy bills at least. >> and liz isn't the only one. george has been in touch. he says, how can our governments do this to the people of this country? people, including myself, are afraid to put the heating or any of the lights on. i bet their homes, as in the governments, politicians, homes , governments, politicians, homes, are lovely and warm and all the lights are blazing all over their houses. i can't see these elites sitting in one room with one light on. >> and paul's just said it was. it was brilliant having a gb news viewers opinion. yes, we had, we had a gb news viewer on a little bit earlier. he says he nailed pensioners troubles. if only government had a similar minuscule amount of common sense, 10 million pensioners would not be panicking. but there you go. it'll be interesting to see what the government do about this one, because they did promise in their manifesto lower energy bills and at the moment it looks like they're only going in one direction. so keep your views

coming in. gbnews.com forward slash your say that chat with the shakespeare portrait won't have to worry about his energy bills if it turns out to be the real deal. anyway, let's get the headunes real deal. anyway, let's get the headlines with sophia . headlines with sophia. >> and emily. thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone. 1:00. your headlines. italian rescue divers have found the body of the last missing person, believed to be mike lynchs daughter. after the british tech entrepreneurs yacht sank off sicily this week, 18 year old hannah lynch was the last remaining person missing after the sinking of the bayesian on monday. six bodies have been found in the search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average £1,717 from october. that's adding around £12 a month to an average bill. ofgem said

that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices. energy and net zero secretary ed miliband says he understands people's concerns. >> i know this will be really worrying news for lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter andifs greater struggles this winter and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that are controlled by dictators. and thatis are controlled by dictators. and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. this government has a plan to do something about it . our mission something about it. our mission for clean home—grown power that we control in this country . we control in this country. >> in other news, match of the day and one show host jermaine jenas has been sacked amid claims of inappropriate behaviour. it's been reported the termination followed allegations involving digital communications , such as communications, such as allegedly sending unsolicited texts to junior members of staff. the news broke yesterday

afternoon while jermaine was on air with talksport. >> it's being reported that you sent unsolicited texts to a female member of staff at the one show. is that true? >> there's like i said, i'm not happy about this situation. you know, i'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it is all i can say right now. i'm not happy at all about the outcome of this, but, i've got to leave it in the hands of the lawyers right now. >> were you surprised that any complaint was made against you ? complaint was made against you? >> i can't really talk, maybe as much . i can't really talk right much. i can't really talk right now . how. >> now. >> now, the funeral of elsie dot stancombe, who died in the southport attack, is underway today as her parents released a new photo of their truly unforgettable daughter. the seven year old was one of three girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in the

merseyside town last month. her family said they want today to be known as el—sisi special day and a celebration of her life . and a celebration of her life. in the us, vice president kamala harris has formally accepted the democratic nomination for president on the final night of the party convention in chicago. she also took aim at her opposition candidate during her speech. the vice president went to on say the only client donald trump has ever served is himself. >> consider the power he will have, especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution . just from criminal prosecution. just imagine donald trump with no guardrails, but america . we are guardrails, but america. we are not going back. we are not going back to domestic politics.

>> now, where tory leadership candidate tom tugendhat has apologised for record migration figures during the conservatives time in power. he sat down with our political editor christopher hope, in this exclusive chat . hope, in this exclusive chat. >> on immigration, how do we finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through? >> absolutely. look, absolutely . >> absolutely. look, absolutely. and, you know, we've all got to stand on our record. >> is it wrong? then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? >> no question . absolutely no >> no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society and what is your level can integrate. well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> police have now caught two dogs that were on the loose, which are believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in

birmingham, west midlands. police say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs , was found dead brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with bite marks. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , or go to gbnews.com the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> well good afternoon britain. it is now 108. and let's start off with the big news today that ofgems energy price cap will increase by 10%. and that's from the start of october for a typical household in england, scotland and wales. >> yes, it means households are now set to face higher energy bills this winter. it comes after the regulator had lowered the price cap twice this year. >> well, we're joined by gb news reporter will hollis because

there are a lot of people , there are a lot of people, particularly pensioners, who are very worried indeed about increasing prices. will you've been out and about asking people what it means for them. what doesit what it means for them. what does it mean ? does it mean? >> yes. well, for the average family , that means that prices family, that means that prices will rise by 10% or £149 based on that new assessment. it's about £1,568 a year for a typical household. right now, that's going to rise to £1,717. now that is less than it was two years ago when we had those massive price rises during the problems with ukraine and russia's invasion. but what's very different now about this time is the change in support. families across the country had £400 worth of support during those winters , and particularly those winters, and particularly the effect that's been brought into question today is the effect on pensioners as winter fuel payments will be taken away from around 10 million

pensioners as it moves towards a means tested system. instead here, where we are in nottingham, this is a suburb called arnold. around a quarter of the 40,000 people that live in this town are of pension age. and i've been speaking to those people as well as working people, about how this new price cap rise might affect them. when it comes to colder months , i it comes to colder months, i target people that have gone to work all their lives. >> there's people on benefits that don't need to be on, benefits that are getting 3 or 4 times more than we are, that have worked. i had three jobs at one time when my kids were small. the winter fuel payment for everyone, i think was a bit ludicrous. >> i mean, i heard i've heard of pensioners who've got private pensions who don't really need it, saying, oh , well, i just it, saying, oh, well, i just bought a i don't know, i mean, a guitar freak, i just bought a new guitar, you know, and think, oh, well, yeah, it's not really supposed to be for that. yeah.

we were already going through challenges with the economic living crisis, so it's not good news. >> i'm a staunch labour voter and i was ashamed to see a labour government hit the poorest people the most. and i am partially sighted, deemed blind and i don't think we'll get a penny . get a penny. >> well, the labour government says they have to remove those fuel payments to try to fill the £22 billion black hole that they say was left to them by the previous conservative government. today, the conservatives and the greens are encouraging labour to reverse that change to the winter fuel payments. but maybe most importantly, the director of age uk, caroline abrahams, says that this change to the fuel payment is reckless and wrong, particularly in light of that

price cap announcement. >> very interesting indeed. thank you so much. will hollis out and about in nottingham getting the views of people. interesting. some of the points they raised will they're saying that of course people did get quite a lot of support, a lot of subsidies during covid and ukraine as a result of those hiking prices, which we no longer have. i mean, some people would argue that we should means test things a bit more, but i guess it's a question of priorities when you see the government giving in to very, very large pay demands from unions and the like. shall we speak to the energy expert catherine porter to make sense of this? all catherine, one question that i keeps coming back to me is the whole idea of the energy price cap itself, and it doesn't seem to be able to control the prices very well . control the prices very well. >> no. good afternoon. well, the price cap isn't there to control the price. it's there to, effectively make sure that people are being charged a fair amount for their energy. and so it's reflective of the cost of

delivering that energy to consumers. if the cost of delivering the energy increases, as it has been doing, then unfortunately the price cap will go up. reflecting that and catherine ofgem seems to be blaming external factors for this. >> an international energy market due to heightened political tensions, extreme weather events is another cited example. so the hands are kind of tied really, aren't there? what can the government do to make sure that people aren't being really cold this winter ? being really cold this winter? >> well, i mean, ofgems hands are tied because it can't control the prices. all it can do is make sure that the price cap is properly reflecting the actual costs, and they're right to say that the costs, are being very influenced by international factors. what's happening in international gas markets does contribute quite a lot to what's happening with prices. and unfortunately, we may well see another increase in from january to march. and that's because of seasonal effects, because those

are cold. the coldest months of the year . but are cold. the coldest months of the year. but there is also a chance that gas prices could fall , because there are certain fall, because there are certain market trends that would potentially suggest they're a bit higher than they need to be at the moment. now, in terms of what the government can do, a large amount of what we pay in our bills is actually a subsidy costs , and the government could costs, and the government could remove those into general taxation . many of the people who taxation. many of the people who struggle the most with bills don't pay income tax, so this would immediately benefit them , would immediately benefit them, because those costs would then because those costs would then be paid by other people who are earning more money, and it wouldn't be applied onto people's bills. the fact that subsidy costs are recovered through bills and not through taxation is extremely regressive. and that would be a very easy step for the government to take. that would actually make quite a lot of difference to people and presumably in the medium to long term, the only way to get these bills down for the long haul is to increase supply in any way, to increase supply in any way, to boost the supply of energy so that the price of it comes down. >> do you have hopes that gb

energy, labours new energy company, that they want to bring forward, is going to have that impact? they say it's going to drive energy bills down. >> no, i think it will do the exact opposite. it's correct that we need to build more domestic supply, but the government is focusing in the wrong place. we need more domestic gas. we need to extract as much gas from the north sea as much gas from the north sea as we can. that doesn't necessarily impact price , but it necessarily impact price, but it impacts security. so if there are supply disruptions, we won't be at risk of not having enough gas. and of course, then when you get shortages, that has huge economic damage and the other real problem is that the government seems to be extremely committed to wind now, and the wind is being very heavily subsidised when in the election campaign, labour said they were going to reduce energy bills by £300. that was based on a study by a consultancy firm called mbappe and they took as a reference price an old price cap that was more expensive. and so

there was already a couple of hundred pounds baked in at the time of the election. but also they assumed that new renewable generation would be built at the cost of the fourth auction round a few years ago. but now the fifth auction round was a failure for wind. there were no offshore wind bids in the fifth round, and for the sixth round the price has been increased significantly. so it's gone up from a reference price of £46 per megawatt hour to £73. but that's in 2012 money. so that's equivalent to about £108 today. but current electricity prices are more like 70 to £80, so it just doesn't. there's no rational logic which says that we're going to build a lot of wind power at prices higher than today's market price, and that that will reduce bills . and that will reduce bills. and particularly you're going to be subsidising that wind. and also recently we've had some periods of very low wind earlier in august . now, to give you an idea august. now, to give you an idea of how low our demand on a summer day, peak demand is

something like 32.5gw. we had days where wind was contributing less than one gigawatt, so less than one out of 32.5 of what we need. so that's a really wind. >> wind power certainly isn't a silver bullet when it comes to our energy security nor reducing our energy security nor reducing our energy security nor reducing our energy bills, but we know ed miliband isn't too keen on the on the north sea. so we'll see what happens. but catherine porter, thank you very much indeed. you're an energy expert. really great to get your expertise on this. now, in other news, this is quite different. the home secretary, yvette coopen the home secretary, yvette cooper, she's in a bit of hot water now. she's been accused of suggesting everyone, everyone that's been arrested over the recent riots across the uk is guilty. yeah. >> the controversy surrounds a tweet from the official home office account, which you can see on your screens here. it refers to more than a thousand people being detained by the police as, and i quote, criminals. some have said it risks prejudicing the trials of those yet to appear in court. >> yes. so let's get some more with our political correspondent ,

with our political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia, this tweet from the home office, which of course, is the home secretary's brief , yvette cooper's brief, brief, yvette cooper's brief, it's got a lot of attention, doesn't it? it still remains up there on twitter. but to say that a thousand people who have been arrested are criminals could be seen to prejudice a trial, could it not? >> well, absolutely. i mean , >> well, absolutely. i mean, this is a very, very controversial tweet. of course, it wasn't the home secretary, yvette cooper, tweeting it herself. it was somebody in the home office department, perhaps someone very junior. but ultimately the buck does stop with the home secretary. she is essentially the ceo of that department. and obviously , the department. and obviously, the suggestion that the 1000 people who've been arrested in connection with those riots are criminals could potentially, change the result of a court verdict. you know, you could have a situation where someone is up in court, as we saw a couple of weeks ago, someone who misidentified the southport

killer as a immigrant, as a first generation immigrant who had come over on a small boat, she has already appeared in court. and at the moment, she isn't going to be accused . she isn't going to be accused. she is. the trial doesn't look like it's going to go further. if it did go further and you know, 3 million people have seen that tweet suggesting that every single one of those 1000 people are criminals. might they think, well, hang on a minute. the home, the home office said that they're criminals. they must be criminals. i will therefore convict them and it completely goes against the obvious legal presumption in this country that you are innocent until proven guilty. the tweet was tweeted about just over a week ago . it's about just over a week ago. it's received a lot of criticism online, but so far it still remains up there. let's see how that goes over the over the next few days. >> yeah. olivia. home office sources saying that the post did not comment on any individual

cases or legal proceedings, and that tweets from the department's accounts were made in line with civil service guidelines. but i think perhaps it doesn't sit right for some people, particularly about this nofion people, particularly about this notion that here in the united kingdom , you are, as you say, kingdom, you are, as you say, innocent until proven guilty . innocent until proven guilty. >> well, exactly . and hard to >> well, exactly. and hard to imagine exactly what those guidelines are, what those civil service guidelines are, because it does seem to be an unnecessarily controversial tweet. yes, it's true that it doesn't mention any specific cases and that would be a lot worse. but those 1000 people who have been arrested, well , let's have been arrested, well, let's see how many of them actually turn out to be convicted actually are are told they are guilty in court because only those people are criminals. the rest of them are not criminals. so it's incorrect at the very least. that tweet. >> well, thank you very much indeed. olivia utley, our political correspondent in westminster. i mean, i was having a little look through the home office twitter account and much like some of our police

forces , very punchy, very punchy forces, very punchy, very punchy tweets going about, lots of videos being shared, lots of sort of winds of who they've managed to capture and bang up, and all of this very cinematic, very dramatic, perhaps trying to make certain clips go viral. yeah. but when there are, you know, we're talking about early release, we're having magistrates courts being told not to send people to prison because of overcrowding, questions of whether people are being sent to prison as a result of posts on facebook or whatever it does create an interesting picture, and we're going to be talking about that actually , talking about that actually, because magistrates have been urged to stop jailing convicted criminals for several weeks. and this is all in part to ease pressure on britain's overcrowded prisons. i mean, what are we supposed to

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125. now, magistrates have been urged to stop jailing convicted criminals for several weeks in the latest effort to ease the pressure on britain's overcrowded prisons. >> they say offenders who are on bail and likely to be jailed should have their sentencing heanngs should have their sentencing hearings postponed until at least september. >> well, this comes following the government's decision to free up 2000 prison places as part of an early release scheme. >> well, we're joined now by retired prison governor and author vanessa frake . vanessa, author vanessa frake. vanessa, thank you so much for joining us. is there any precedent for this in history where criminals have been had their sentences delayed because of prison overcrowding , overcrowding, >> not that i can recall over the last, say, 35 years, it is it is quite unprecedented. but i think we have to remember the difference between a magistrates court and a crown court. a magistrates court can only sentence prisoners for a single offence up to six months. and for several offences up to 12

months. anything more than that? prisoners. people who've been alleged to have committed crime would go to a crown court for sentencing. so it is only the magistrates court. the issue that's going to arise here is that's going to arise here is that around about i think it's the 10th of september when the early release scheme starts. you're going to have around about 1700 prisoners released on from that day onwards up until, and again in in october. and another although they'll be staggered, now if the magistrates courts are going to wait until round about the 10th of september, which is in two, three weeks, you know, that's all well and good. but then you're going to have huge swathes of prisoners being released on the early release scheme and huge swathes of new prisoners who have been delayed, from the magistrates court going straight into prison and that actually is going to lead us straight back to where we are at this precise moment. >> yeah, yeah, that's a, that's a that's a very good point that

you release some and then these ones that have been waiting will just be put in their place. so you haven't actually opened up any extra spaces have you really. i mean, that is the point here isn't it? we clearly need more prison spaces. successive governments have failed to do so. you've got someone who's in charge of the prisons now saying that actually over probably , probably about over probably, probably about half of prisoners probably shouldn't be in prison anyway for one reason or another. it's a very complex picture, but do you think the government that this is the right message to be sending, not least to the victims of these crimes ? victims of these crimes? >> no, i don't think it's the right , the right thing to do at right, the right thing to do at all. but, you know, the prison service has got itself in a in a pickle quite frankly, you know, people have been warning about this for the last 2 or 3 years about how we're heading for a just a complete breakdown of our prison system, you know, this government said keir starmer himself said that, you know, he'd never realised how bad it

was yet , you know, he's he's was yet, you know, he's he's managed to get a thousand people arrested, many of whom just happened to be there standing on the sidelines, you know, sending a 51 year old grandmother to prison for, for 15 months who's a carer of her husband of first time offence as well. for a stupid comment on facebook. you know that that sentence would be far better off. served in the community, i just just think the whole justice system has broken down and it saddens me. it saddens me for the many hard men and women who work within it. >> and , vanessa, this early >> and, vanessa, this early release scheme where 40 where some prisoners will only serve 40% of their sentence. it's not going to include prisoners serving sentences for violent offences of four years or more, or sex and domestic violence offences. but is there a danger because of the sheer volume of prisoners who are potentially going to be released early, that some violent prisoners may just

slip through the net? and then we're going to get into a situation where there's going to be scandals, where these prisoners who have been released early are going to commit further crimes, creating further victims . victims. >> well, there's two trains of thought on that. the first is if they're going to commit crimes, they're going to commit crimes, they would have done it. whether they would have done it. whether they served 40% or 50% of their sentence . and the second thing sentence. and the second thing is, is, i'm sure dealing with such large numbers, mistakes will be made. and i have no doubt that, you know, i'll be back commenting on somebody who's committed a serious crime, who's committed a serious crime, who's been on the 40%. i can imagine that the mainstream media is just all over it, like a rash and waiting for the first one to, you know, break, break the conditions of his licence and end up back inside and charged with further offences. >> well, it's horrible to think, but maybe that's what it will to take get our prison system the resources it needs . clearly we resources it needs. clearly we do not have enough spaces. but as you say , this is about as you say, this is about priorities. when you've got prisons that are overcrowded, it is about priorities. the government have chosen to

prioritise rioters and people involved in that disorder, which obviously the vast, vast majority of people are happy to see. but not if others are going to be let out early or not put in prison when they should be and could potentially be more dangerous. vanessa frake, thank you very much for talking us through all of that. really appreciate your time. vanessa frake, retired prison governor and also author. it's a very messy picture, but yes, she's absolutely right. if someone who's let out early or who has bailed because there's not enough space in the prison system goes on to commit a violent crime, it's not much solace to the victim, is it, that? oh, well, i could have committed a crime if he was in there for another ten years, too. absolutely. >> and we'll keep you right up to date on all of that. this is good afternoon or good afternoon. britain on gb news. lots more coming up on today's show. we're back outside new broadcasting house, the bbc's headquarters, as match of the day and the one show presenter jermaine jenas is sacked from the corporation. more of that after your headlines with sophia .

after your headlines with sophia. >> cameron thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 130. your headunes it's just gone 130. your headlines italian rescue divers have found the body of the last missing person believed to be mike lynchs daughter, after the british tech entrepreneur's yacht sank off sicily this week , yacht sank off sicily this week, family have released a photograph of mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, who was last person remaining missing after the sinking of the bayesian on monday. six bodies have been found in the search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average of £1,717 from october. that adds around £12 a month to the average bill. ofgem said that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices. energy and net zero secretary ed miliband says he understands people's concerns. >> i know this will be really

worrying news for lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter , greater struggles this winter, andifs greater struggles this winter, and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that are controlled by dictators. and thatis are controlled by dictators. and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. our mission for clean , home—grown power that for clean, home—grown power that we control in this country. >> match of the day and one show host, jermaine jenas has been sacked amid claims of inappropriate behaviour. it's been reported the termination followed allegations involving digital communications , such as digital communications, such as allegedly sending unsolicited texts to junior members of staff . texts to junior members of staff. police have now caught two of the dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham. west midlands police

say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with bite marks and flights have been cancelled and flights have been cancelled and drivers urged to take care as storm lilian sweeps across parts of the uk ahead of what could be the busiest august bank houday could be the busiest august bank holiday on the roads on record. strong winds of up to 80mph are forecast, with travel disruption , forecast, with travel disruption, flooding, power cuts and dangerous conditions near coastal areas likely. meanwhile two stages at leeds festival have been closed for the day. that's due to the high winds caused by storm lilian. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club

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>> welcome back. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain. it is 137 now. another day, another scandal at the bbc as the match of the day and one show host, jermaine jenas is sacked. >> yeah, he's facing claims of inappropriate behaviour and the news broke yesterday afternoon

whilst he was on air or about to go on air. on talksport. take a listen. >> you know i'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it. he's all i can say right now. i'm not i'm not happy at all about the outcome of this, but, i've got to leave it in the hands of the lawyers right now. >> were you surprised that any complaint was made against you? >> yeah. there's two sides to this whole thing. and, you know, my lawyers are going to be taking over from now on. >> okay, well, he's not happy, and he's getting his lawyers involved. but joining us now is our reporter , ray addison, who our reporter, ray addison, who is outside new broadcasting house ray, what's what's the latest on this then ? latest on this then? >> well, the latest is the bookies are already starting to speculate about who could be jermaine jenas replacement on match of the day and the one show. rylan clark actually has been named as one of the favourites, and i can reveal that he was actually here this morning and went into the bbc headquarters, then came out, sat and had a chat with a bbc member

of staff while he enjoyed a coffee and so very much attention turning to who could be a permanent replacement for him on both of those programmes. remember, jermaine jenas was tipped to be a replacement for match of the day presenter gary lineker. of course, now we understand that the relationship with the bbc has ended completely. he's been removed from any kind of branding for the one show. his post has been taken down from the manchester bbc headquarters as well, and other broadcasters too, saying talksport and tnt sports saying there are no immediate plans to use mrjenas in any of their broadcasting. of course, this all comes after the sun reported that there had been complaints made by a female member of staff on the one show about inappropriate what they described as flirty text messages sent to a member of staff there. the bbc launched , staff there. the bbc launched, they say, an immediate investigation. now, during that

investigation, apparently other complaints were also reportedly made and it ultimately ended with the director of sport there sending a message to all staff saying that jermaine jenas was no longer working with the bbc. apparently, that was greeted by with shock by colleagues . as you with shock by colleagues. as you said, he was on air on talksport at the time doing the drivetime show when all of this was announced. he then did an interview with talksport news, where he kind of left a lot of it unsaid , but just basically it unsaid, but just basically said there's two sides to every story and that he was going to be speaking to his lawyers . of be speaking to his lawyers. of course, it does mean that he has lost his agent as well. mick saatchi has taken down all reference to jermaine jenas. his web page has been taken off of their website as well. and this is just the latest scandal to hit the bbc. we've seen the strictly come dancing scandal, the scandal involving huw

edwards as well, and there had been complaints and concerns from some people that the bbc simply just taking too long to deal with scandals of this kind. of course, huw edwards choosing to resign from the bbc rather than being fired, despite that going on over a number of months. and so the bbc has plans for an independent review of its workplace culture over concerns about , quote, the potential for about, quote, the potential for inappropriate workplace behaviour . inappropriate workplace behaviour. particularly, inappropriate workplace behaviour . particularly, they behaviour. particularly, they say, in creative and editorial environments, and so that review very much apparently underway now and that will be very much motivated by this latest scandal involving jermaine jenas. we understand from again , reports understand from again, reports in the sun that his wife of 13 years, former model ellie, mother of three of his four children, is planning to stand by him. >> very interesting indeed. thank you. ray addison, our reporter outside new broadcasting house. yes. it's interesting. well, it's striking, isn't it ? how quickly

striking, isn't it? how quickly the bbc appear to be acting on this one. but with more women coming forward with various allegations, it could get pretty messy indeed. lots of you have been getting in touch about all sorts of things. of course, on this issue of energy bills going up, particularly when it comes to the older generation. lynne says, i think what most of the younger generation and the labour party don't understand is that pensioners don't want to be reliant on benefits or handouts. we've worked hard in our lives. we've worked hard in our lives. we just want to live without worrying about having enough to eat or being cold. lynne, do let us know if perhaps you're going to be affected by this scrapping of this winter fuel allowance. maybe you are. maybe you aren't. but perhaps you know people who will be. very much so, yes. >> we had our gb news viewer, william on earlier on in the show, and we'd love to get more of you on if you have a particular burning story about this energy price cap increase, how it's going to affect you. we'd really love to hear from you and get you on so you can tell us your story. so get in

touch. >> yes, lots of people getting in touch about the energy expert we had on catherine porter and how spot on she was about the wind energy. wind energy. fantastic contribution, perhaps to bringing us the energy we need and the energy security we need. but it can't replace at the moment, at least the gas and other ways in which we fuel our homes and everything else. >> yeah. and john saying fracking needs to be back on the agenda. and john's not the only person who's talking about fracking. i don't think so. not with ed miliband's net zero plans, but we'll see. it's a it's a balance to strike, isn't it. but unfortunately you're not going to get the public on side if energy if energy is going to be more expensive because you are pursuing these green net zero policies. >> yeah. well steve says it's a cash grab from the greedy energy providers, pure and simple. he says we have our north sea oil and gas reserves, yet we're paying and gas reserves, yet we're paying the same as those who don't. where's the justice in that? thanks to westminster, we are the only oil and gas producing country in the world that suffers from fuel poverty. yes, this is the thing that

winds me up as well. you know, you've got virtue signalling politicians in this country. in my opinion , who say, no, no, no, my opinion, who say, no, no, no, no, no, no. north sea oil and gas , we've got to meet our net gas, we've got to meet our net zero targets, etc, etc. but what happens instead? we end up just getting it from other countries, often with far lower environmental regulations and standards or the like. it's not exactly good for the world, is it? if we're getting dirtier fossil fuels from elsewhere, it doesn't make sense. it's just so they can say, oh, we've got net zero in this country. it's all well and good when china, india, etc. etc. are all, you know , etc. etc. are all, you know, building their coal mines. >> that's the thing. and we've also been talking about the prison system. magistrates are being to told delay sending certain convicted people to prison because there's not enough space in prisons. alan has said now we have people effectively queuing to go to prison. i suppose that's an interesting point, isn't it? rationing? yeah, exactly. turning prison sentences into the same chaos as the nhs and other public service.

overstretched overcrowded. the government's struggling, it appears, at the moment to get a hold on this. yes. they brought in some policies only serving 40% of the sentences, for example. but that creates its own other problems, doesn't it? >> absolutely. i mean , the >> absolutely. i mean, the picture at the moment. okay. so on september the 10th, we're going to have 2000 prisoners released early. october the 22nd, another 1700 prisoners released early. we've got magistrates courts being told not to sentence people yet because there's no space in the prisons. we've got the priority to those who are involved in the disorder. that's all well and good, but we've got to make sure there's enough space for all these other people that could potentially be dangerous on our streets. it's hard to feel safe at the moment. i don't want to be hyperbolic about this, but it is pretty worrying and in fairness to labour, they've only beenin fairness to labour, they've only been in power forjust over month. >> i think they would probably argue it's this is all because of the policies of the last decade or so. but the question is, what is their long term solution to this? because you

can't keep releasing prisoners early. are we going to have to build new super prisons? we'll have to wait and see if there's any policies on that coming up. >> also, it makes a mockery of sentencing, doesn't it? if you're sentenced to five years and then you're out in what, two? yeah. it's hardly the deterrent that it should be. anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show, including police. the police have caught two dogs. they're doing that they were searching for, which are believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham. now, this is a bit of a shocking and we'll have very latest to bring you after this

break. well, hello, it is 150. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain . now police afternoon britain. now police have caught two dogs. they were searching for , believed to have searching for, believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of his property in birmingham. >> a 33 year old man who was

looking after his brother's dogs was found dead in hereford close in rubery on wednesday with dog bite marks. >> well, we're joined now by gb news west midlands reporter jack carson. jack, tell us about the story . story. >> well, there's certainly a lot of relief within this area that these two dogs were confirmed by west midlands police to have been caught just before 10 am. this morning. a very simple statement from them this morning saying that they'd detained the two dogs that were being sought after following an incident where a man died here in rubery. now, police confirmed yesterday that they'd attended this property on the early hours of wednesday morning to reports of loose dogs. that's where they then found the victim, who's been identified as a 33 year old man not yet officially named in outside, believed to be in the back garden. they were able to seize two dogs at the scene dunng seize two dogs at the scene during the when they attended the property , but they realised the property, but they realised that two of the dogs and

potentially even yesterday, they didn't know where they were looking for three dogs had been had been let let go and were on the loose in the local area. now west midlands police put a lot of resources into finding this and issued the urgent appeal. they'd got the use of resources like the police drone unit as well. when i was here yesterday, well. when i was here yesterday, we saw the west midlands police helicopter also flying over the area to try and find where these dogs had gone and the urgent appeal really was to the community to say if you've if you've if you've led a stray or loose dog in, do call us because we're not sure whether it is one of these dogs that was involved in this incident. now, the west midlands police confirmed that the man they'd found does not live at this property, believed that the property believe is believed to have belonged to a family member and he was simply looking after the dogs when obviously one of them at least attacked them due to the fact that police found him dead outside with dog bite marks on

him. now police confirmed yesterday that there was a post—mortem examination underway. we've not yet heard any more information about the outcome of that. we don't believe the police to be treating this as anything more than what's been said so far. than what's been said so fan and the worry really with the police, with these dogs on the loose over the last 24 hours, was that they weren't sure exactly whether the two dogs they'd seized at the scene were they'd seized at the scene were the dogs that were involved in the dogs that were involved in the incident, and the dogs that had got loose had just run away, maybe scared, or whether they're actually the dogs that had got loose were the dangerous ones. now, in terms of the breed, the two dogs they've seized are believed to be american bulldogs. no confirmation on what the breeds of the two dogs that they've caught this morning are , but it is not believed that are, but it is not believed that any of the breeds involved are band breeds. but we do await confirmation of that. that was confirmed yesterday. west midlands police do not believe them to to be be banned. to be banned breeds. there had been, of course, attacks this week with a man dying because of an

xl bully attack. so that's not the same incident as what happened here. but police talking of the tragedy of this incident, we've seen a couple of bouquets of flowers left at the scene already here this morning. and overnight a couple of candles have been laid and lit as a small vigil to the death of this 33 year old man, which police are describing as tragic but good news for this community. those two loose dogs have been caught . have been caught. >> okay, well, thank you very much indeed . jack carson live in much indeed. jack carson live in birmingham. thank you very much. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. don't go anywhere. we certainly do. >> and some breaking news. in the last few minutes, the family of technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah, are devastated and in shock after their bodies were recovered following the sinking of a luxury yacht in sicily. that's to according a spokesperson. in the last few minutes, we'll bring you the latest after this very short .

break. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news . news. >> hello! welcome to your latest gb news. weather update brought to you from the met office. through the rest of the day it will remain breezy though the winds are much lighter than they were. first thing today. thanks to storm lillian, we'll still feel quite fresh as well, particularly across western areas. now storm lillian has now moved off into the north sea and behind it it is much drier across the uk. still a few showers to come though through this evening across northern ireland and many western areas of scotland in particular. elsewhere, it should be a dry evening and the winds will lighten off. but overnight the next band of rain arrives into southern areas. here there is a warning in force for tomorrow, with lots of cloud building in from the south. temperatures will stay on the milder side of things for most of us, away from the far north, where we see

those clearer skies. so as i said, there is a rain warning in force across eastern areas of england. but elsewhere it should be a drier start, particularly across the far north of scotland and eastern areas of scotland. a fairly dry start, but still some very heavy showers moving in across western areas of scotland. some of these could be quite heavy and they will persist through much of the day, but looking further south into the midlands, the south east towards east anglia as well. that's where we'll see the heaviest rain across the far southeast as well. the rain will unger southeast as well. the rain will linger towards lunchtime as well, so that could bring some disruption on the roads and to travel delays as well. now the rain will slowly clear away to the east throughout saturday morning and behind it a mixture of sunshine and showers developing. still quite a brisk breeze as well. so particularly across western coasts, you're still going to feel quite fresh out there. but in any sunshine, not too bad into the afternoon. certainly a better afternoon compared to the start of the day across eastern areas, but those showers will continue across eastern areas into saturday evening. behind it, though, it

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon britain. it is now 2:00 on friday the 23rd of august. i'm emily carver and i'm cameron walker. now the family of technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old daughter hannah. they are devastated and in shock after their bodies were recovered following the sinking of a luxury yacht in sicily. that's according to a spokesperson. in the last few minutes, we'll have the very latest with our homeland security editor and a cold winter ahead . winter ahead. >> charities warn pensioners could face the worst winter on record with a £500 jump in their

energy bills due to labour's decision to scrap the winter fuel allowance. this, as the average household energy bill, is set to rise by 10% and to be or not to be is this painting. >> could it be the first ever portrait of william shakespeare? well, if it is, it could be worth £200 million. is it the real deal or much ado about nothing? see what i did there? we're going to speak to the owner . of yes, we're going to owner. of yes, we're going to speak to the owner of this potential £200 million shakespeare portrait . shakespeare portrait. >> yeah, we all have seen a shakespeare portrait before, but this one, it's alleged. if that's the right word, was painted in his lifetime because all the other portraits we've seen was painted after his death. >> well, it's very exciting indeed, if it turns out to be the real deal. i mean, that's a huge amount of money. or perhaps you'd be forced to gift it to

some kind of gallery. >> yeah, very rich. window cleaner, that's for sure. >> very rich. but anyway. yes. much ado about nothing. the real shakespeare. send us in your punsif shakespeare. send us in your puns if you've got any better ones. gbnews.com/yoursay. and also keeping . keep your views also keeping. keep your views coming in on all of this energy bill stuff. essentially, bills are going up, particularly if you happen to be a pensioner and you've lost your winter fuel allowance. keep your views coming in gbnews.com/yoursay, but let's get your headlines with sophia . with sophia. >> emily. thank you. good afternoon. it's 2:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the family of mike and hannah lynch, who died after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of sicily, have said they are devastated and in shock. that's according to a spokesperson. 18 year old hannah became the final missing passenger to be recovered from the wreckage of the bayesian

superyacht. family have also released a photograph of mr lynch and his daughter. six bodies have been found in the search of the wreckage , taking search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average £1,717 from october. that's adding around £12 a month to an average bill. ofgem said that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas prices. energy and net zero secretary ed miliband says he understands people's concerns. >> i know this will be really worrying for news lots of families who will face even greater struggles this winter, andifs greater struggles this winter, and it's a direct result of our country's exposure to international gas markets that are controlled by dictators. and thatis are controlled by dictators. and that is a legacy left to us by the last government. that's why this government has a plan to do something about it. our mission

for clean home—grown power that we control in this country . we control in this country. >> in other news, the funeral of elsie dot stancombe, who died in the southport attack, is underway today as her parents released a new photo of their truly unforgettable daughter. the seven year old was one of three girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in the merseyside town last month. her family said they want today to be known as elsie's special day and a celebration of her life . and a celebration of her life. now police have now caught two dogs that were on the loose, which were believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham, west midlands. police say the 33 year old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, was found dead in hereford close yesterday with bite marks . former in hereford close yesterday with bite marks. former bbc presenter jermaine jenas says he's speaking to his lawyers after being sacked by the corporation

amid allegations he sent unsolicited messages to a female colleague. the former premier league player said there were two sides to every story after his axing, adding he is not happy and will be taking legal advice in the us. vice president kamala harris has formally accepted the democratic nomination for president on the final night of the party convention in chicago. she also took aim at opposition candidate dunng took aim at opposition candidate during her speech. the vice president went on to say the only client donald trump has ever served is himself. >> consider the power he will have, especially after the united states supreme court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution . just from criminal prosecution. just imagine donald trump with no guardrails, but america. we are

not going back. we are not going back. >> and to domestic politics. now where tory leadership candidate tom tugendhat has apologised for record migration figures during the conservative's time in power. he sat down with our political editor, christopher hope, in this exclusive chat. >> on immigration, how do we finally , once and for all, deal finally, once and for all, deal with this issue of big let net immigration? would you like to apologise for seeing those big numbers come through the door? >> look . absolutely. and you >> look. absolutely. and you know, we've all got to stand on our record was it wrong then to allow, you know, 1.2 million to arrive in two years legally? no question. absolutely no question about it. because what we've got to do is we've got to make sure immigration is at a level that the british people and british society. and what's your level can integrate? well, look, i'm interested in the levels that we saw between 1990 and sort of 2010. then it was what is that? it was about 100,000, roughly 120. >> and flights have been

cancelled and drivers urged to take care as storm william sweeps across parts of the uk ahead of what could be the busiest august bank holiday on the roads on record. strong winds of up to 80 miles an hour are forecast, with travel disruption, flooding, power cuts and dangerous conditions near coastal areas likely. meanwhile two stages at leeds festival have closed for the day. that's due to high winds caused by the storm. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> com forward slash alerts . >> com forward slash alerts. >> com forward slash alerts. >> welcome back. 2:07. now the family of the technology tycoon mike lynch and his 18 year old

daughter hannah are devastated and in shock after their bodies were recovered following a sinking of the luxury yacht in sicily. that's according to a spokesperson. >> well, joining us now in the studio is our home and security edhon studio is our home and security editor, mark white. so we're heanng editor, mark white. so we're hearing from the family of mike lynch . lynch. >> yeah. they had been braced for what was an inevitable outcome. but of course , now the outcome. but of course, now the confirmation that the 18 year old her body has been recovered, it will be formally identified now that it has been brought to shore by rescue teams in porticello brought ashore just a little earlier this morning, it had been located inside the yacht as all the other deceased had been inside that yacht as well. it seems they have very little time to do anything, as that yacht sank in the early hours of monday morning, that yacht sank in the early hours of monday morning , because hours of monday morning, because that storm was just so ferocious

and so sudden that the yacht was tipped over. and it seems that nobody, or a lot of people didn't have any opportunity to even get out of their cabins. >> and mike lynch's wife, angela, was on the boat, we believe, and she managed to escape. so what? she must have been through a in the initial sinking , not knowing where her sinking, not knowing where her husband and daughter are, but then b this agonising wait to find out the truth about what happened to them must have been awful for her. >> yeah, for everyone concerned. but particularly, of course, as the sole survivor from that family group, it the sole survivor from that family group , it must be family group, it must be absolutely terrible to try to get, you know, try to come to terms with the death of not just her husband, but her young daughter as well, who by all accounts was a high achiever at school. and the most lovely individual as well. her teachers at school were talking about how

incredible she was, scoring 100% incredible she was, scoring 100% in her english literature exams or gcses, and she was planning to head off to oxford to study english. so, absolutely tragic. and the family now understandably appealing for, you know, some privacy at this very difficult time for them, as they often do. but now we switch really from that search and rescue and recovery operation into what is an active investigation into what exactly went wrong and whether there is anyone to blame for what went wrong. and that might well be the direction that any investigation takes as we move forward. >> yes, because we've heard from the boss of the company that makes these boats that he believes absolutely nothing wrong with the way these boats are manufactured, that there

must must have been an element of human error here. yeah. >> this is giovanni constantino from the italian sea group. the builders and designers of this yacht. and he is convinced that it was a safe yacht. he was described as described as saying it was unsinkable, which is plainly ludicrous. but he it was unsinkable, which is plainly ludicrous . but he sticks plainly ludicrous. but he sticks by his assertion that it was well designed and it shouldn't have sank in those conditions had the crew been alert. he says , had the crew been alert. he says, unable to do what they should have done, which, according to mr constantino, is pull up the anchon mr constantino, is pull up the anchor, switch on the engines, steer the vessel into the wind and ride out the storm. that is indeed what happened to another sailing boat that was just very close to the bayesian at the time of the storm hitting the captain of that vessel was able to turn the engine on and do

that to steer the vessel into the winds and ride out the storm. so there's a key question, of course , for question, of course, for investigators. i'm sure they will have got some of the answers already. having spoken to the captain, the skipper of the vessel , james cutfield. but the vessel, james cutfield. but was anyone of the ten man crew on duty in the bridge? you would hope that with the ten man crew, there was enough of a crew there to be able to man the bridge 24 hours if there wasn't. the investigators will obviously want to know why and what other mitigating mitigation was put in place to be able to deal with a sudden emergency such as this storm. >> and the telegraph is reporting that authorities have launched a manslaughter investigation, although the prosecutor's office refusing to confirm that at this stage , confirm that at this stage, >> yeah. i mean, it's a preliminary investigation that the prosecutor's office is conducting alongside the tandem

investigation, which is the marine accident investigation branch here in the uk, because it was a british flagged vessel, they would take control of that particular investigation into exactly what went wrong. but you're right, in terms of the potential for blame and prosecutions, that is being handled by the italian prosecutor's office. and they are due to hold a news conference tomorrow morning , conference tomorrow morning, which i'm sure they will probably announce a development in the case, which is that it will be a full, full throated investigation for potentially for manslaughter. >> and mark, the focus has been a lot on mike lynch and his daughter hannah. do we know do we know the identities of the other people who, sadly perished in this incident? yeah, i mean, some very high achievers among them, morgan stanley's chairman,

jonathan boomer, and his wife judy were on board, one of, well, a number of the lawyers, the legal team that had helped mike lynch fight that fraud case for years in the united states were on board, including chris morvillo and his wife , nedda. morvillo and his wife, nedda. >> they both perished on board the vessel as well, and the chef, ricardo thomas , who was a chef, ricardo thomas, who was a dual canadian , national, and he , dual canadian, national, and he, he basically, was the first of those who died their body has to be recovered. was the chef ricardo thomas, but yeah. so, i mean , an absolutely terrible mean, an absolutely terrible tragedy as, say , 15 people tragedy as, say, 15 people survived and amongst them were other legal team that had helped mike lynch and his fraud case. >> and mark, we know the vessel

was british flagged. so presumably a number of the victims were british citizens, british citizens. what sort of help would the foreign office be giving at a disaster like this, which has happened abroad , which has happened abroad, >> well, the foreign office was involved in the early stages. of course, it's there to help liaise with the likes of the italian authorities to help those loved ones who might be back here in the uk and very concerned about people who are overseas. they're not necessarily in a position to get there quickly themselves . so you there quickly themselves. so you have that conduit from the foreign and commonwealth office and the, the, the staff, the embassy staff in italy, that would have moved to that area to help, especially as this was a significant tragedy involving multiple deaths, not just 1 or 2 individuals, but seven people who died and another 15 who were caught up and rescued. some of those , of course, we know were those, of course, we know were injured in that rescue

operation. >> just a terrible, terribly sad, shocking tragedy. reading about, hannah lynch, just 18 years old, set to go to oxford university to study the subject. she clearly loved. terribly, terribly sad. i'm sure tributes will be coming in thick and fast to those who sadly lost their lives on this. in this tragic incident. thank you, mark, for bringing us those updates. mark white there. >> in other news, ofgems energy price cap will increase by 10% from the start of october. for a typical household in england, scotland and wales. >> yes, it means that households are now set to face higher energy bills this winter , and energy bills this winter, and this comes after the regulator had lowered the price cap twice this year. we're joined now by our political correspondent, olivia utley olivia. a lot of the focus has been on pensioners and how they're going to be able to afford to keep their homes warm, particularly if they've had this winter fuel allowance removed . removed. >> well , absolutely. removed. >> well, absolutely. this could

be a disaster for pensioners. 10 million pensioners are set to have their winter fuel payments cut completely after rachel reeves decided to make that winter fuel payment means tested rather than given to all pensioners. pensioners are affected, usually the worst, by hikes to gas prices because obviously lots of them spend far more time at home than the working population who are going out to work every day . sort of out to work every day. sort of goes without saying. so this could be terrible for pensioners, and it has put huge pressure on rachel reeves to delay that fuel payments cut until after this winter is over. this price hike of about 10% isn't nearly as bad as the one that we saw at the beginning of january last year, when the war in ukraine was at its height. but it is bad enough to put huge pressure on household bills, particularly if it's coupled with with a cold winter. the last couple of winters we've had have been relatively mild, which sort of helps ease that burden a

little bit. there is huge pressure from so many angles on the government now. of course, rachel reeves, as i said, is under pressure to change that decision to cut winter fuel payments. there is also a spotlight on ed miliband, the energy secretary's net zero plans. he is preparing to sort of charge towards net zero, but the conservatives are arguing that that is actually ending up putting up gas prices for ordinary people, because some of those renewable energy sources like wind power, for instance , like wind power, for instance, just aren't really suitable yet to, to to, meet the energy demands of this country. there is also pressure on keir starmer in terms of what this effect, what the effect this will have on the economy, because it isn't just ordinary families at home and pensioners who will be struggling with this. it's businesses too. and in fact, businesses too. and in fact, businesses can often be really, really badly affected. think of your your local pub or restaurant and how much that is has to be lit, has to be heated all all the time , all, all year

all all the time, all, all year round pretty much. and what effect will that have? will we see pubs and restaurants having to close as they did when the bills got hiked last time around? keir starmer has promised growth for the country and this really is the last thing that he needs. >> okay, olivia utley gb news political correspondent. thank you for joining political correspondent. thank you forjoining us. will, our reporter will hollis has been out and about asking just what it means for the ordinary person. will what are people saying in nottingham ? saying in nottingham? >> well, this area of nottingham, a suburb called arnold, has around 40,000 people living here. a quarter of those people, about 11,000 are of pension age . so the removal of pension age. so the removal of that winter fuel payment from what i'm hearing is going to greatly upset people here and also caused them financial problems going into the winter months. it means that they will have to make different decisions about how they heat their homes or the accessories that they

enjoy in life. i've been speaking to some pensioners as well as ordinary working people, about how these changes and the additional £149 a year will affect them . affect them. >> i target people that have gone to work all their lives. there's people on benefits that don't need to be on, benefits that are getting 3 or 4 times more than we are, that have worked. i had three jobs at one time when my kids were small. >> the winter fuel payment for everyone, i think was a bit ludicrous. i mean, i heard i've heard of pensioners who've got private pensions who don't really need it, saying, oh, well, i just bought a i don't know, i mean, a guitar freak, i just bought a new guitar, you know, and think, oh well, yeah, it's not really supposed to be for that. yeah. we were already going through challenges with the economic living crisis , so the economic living crisis, so it's not good news. >> i'm a staunch labour voter, and i was ashamed to see a

labour government hit the poorest people the most . and i poorest people the most. and i am partially sighted, deemed blind . and i don't think we'll blind. and i don't think we'll get a penny . get a penny. >> well, the price cap changes an extra £149. it's about £12 a month extra that the average household will be paying. but it is worth remembering that it is less than two winters ago and last winter as well. but the big difference is that there is no support across the board for all people. like there was two years ago. and now without the winter fuel payment, some more people may be falling into fuel poverty. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed . will hollis there much indeed. will hollis there in nottingham, hearing the views of people around, lots of people worried about a potential hike in their energy bills. but stick with us after the break. we're going to be back outside new broadcasting house, the bbc's new broadcasting house, because

the match of the day and one show presenter jermaine jenas, is sacked from the bbc. what next for the beleaguered broadcaster ?

>> welcome back. it is 224 you're watching good afternoon britain on gb news. lots of you have been getting in touch on this price cap increase into energy . j.d. says pensioners energy. j.d. says pensioners need to get into the lords £330 plus a day tax free. nice. fair enough. >> a bit of a comparison there. mary says i think all pensioners need to march on downing street to protest outside number 10. when will the government realise that pensioners work hard for their pension? we need to get their pension? we need to get the ones on benefits to get off their bum. someone in nottingham had that to say, pretty much

didn't they? you know, all of these young people not working, i've worked all my life and i can't even have my, you know, a little bit of help with my fuel payments , but there you go. payments, but there you go. priorities. and, richard, what's he got to say? >> well, he says, but give our chancellor some credit. she's paid off her union paymasters with our pensioners heating money. are we to believe starmer knew nothing about it? question mark. question mark? >> well , this is the thing they >> well, this is the thing they didn't have to put in the manifesto that they were going to give x amount in pay rises to train drivers, for example, or for 22% to the junior doctors. i mean, it's one of the reasons why the government have had to borrow so much money in just one month, far beyond what they were expecting to. but keep your views coming in. lots to talk about, indeed. >> chancellor has a big task to balance the books , that's for balance the books, that's for sure. but let's move on to a scandal that some are seeing it with the bbc again , as the with the bbc again, as the former match of the day and the one show host jermaine jenas is

sacked. >> yes. so he's facing claims of inappropriate behaviour. and the news broke yesterday afternoon whilst he was actually on air but with talksport. let's take listen. >> you know i'm going to be speaking to my lawyers about it is all i can say right now. i'm not happy at all about the outcome of this , but, i've got outcome of this, but, i've got to leave it in the hands of the lawyers right now. >> were you surprised that any complaint was made against you? >> you know, there's two sides to this whole thing. and, you know , my lawyers are going to be know, my lawyers are going to be taking over from now on. >> well, our reporter, ray addison, he is outside the bbc's headquarters, new broadcasting house in central london. ray, the bbc appeared to have acted on this pretty quickly compared to, let's say, perhaps previous scandals . scandals. >> yeah, i think they're really keen to get ahead of this one. heanng keen to get ahead of this one. hearing that the bbc's head of sport sent out a very quick and very short email message, which was sent from their iphone to members of staff just simply one

line saying that jermaine jenas was no longer working with the bbc. and of course they have seen a history of scandal over the last few years. we've seen the last few years. we've seen the strictly come dancing scandal, the huw edwards situation as well. a lot of criticism there that huw edwards should have been fired rather than given the opportunity to resign after several months of speculation about his situation with the broadcaster and, of course, the huge salary that he was on. jermaine jenas himself on around £195,000 for his work. we're told with bbc studios, of course , him, he'll be missing course, him, he'll be missing out on a huge yearly payday because he won't be working for the broadcaster anymore. he was a commentator, a pundit on match of the day. in fact, he was seen as a natural successor to current host gary lineker. also, he was a regular presenter.

current host gary lineker. also, he was a regular presenter . on he was a regular presenter. on the one show and had been since 2020. and it's on that programme that we're hearing these reports that we're hearing these reports that a woman alerted bosses that she'd received unsolicited text communications, flirty texts, the sun is referring to them as unwanted texts from jermaine jenas. an investigation was launched when that was flagged and then he was very, very swiftly sacked by the broadcaster. we're also hearing as well that there have been reportedly more women coming forward as well to raise some kind of concerns. as you said, he was on air. he also does broadcasting work with other broadcasters. talksport. he was doing the drivetime show and they decided to put him on air because they just simply wasn't time to find a replacement for him. then he did an interview with talksport news where he sort of didn't really say anything , sort of didn't really say anything, apart from there's two sides to every story and obviously said he was going to be talking to his lawyers as

well. he also does work with tnt sports . both of those two sports. both of those two broadcasters that i just mentioned have said that he there's no current plans for to use him in any capacity in the immediate future as well. obviously questions do remain, though, because he didn't respond to questions to sort of elaborate about what the specific nature of the complaint was about. he wouldn't say whether it concerned more than one colleague. and of course, that will be legal advice, probably, that he has received just advising him to keep his powder dry for now. and let his lawyers deal with this situation. obviously, it means now that the one show will be looking for a new presenter. bookies are saying that rylan clark could be tipped to do that. he of course presents on this morning and we saw him here this morning, bright and early, just after our live at 8 am, came into this building behind me and then came out and had a coffee with a member of bbc staff. obviously, match of the day as well. be looking for a replacement. his agent has reportedly ditched him as well. mick saatchi just dropping him

from their website, completely removing the page and his wife though, saying reportedly through the sun that she will be standing by him. they've been married for 13 years. she's a mother of three of his four children, and of course he will be no doubt leaning on her heavily at this very difficult time for him. >> yes, indeed. well, thank you very much. ray addison there outside new broadcasting house bbc hq. another scandal for the broadcaster. anyway, coming up on today's show, we're going to be live in birmingham. stick with us. because two killer dogs have been found after a 24 hour search operation. we're also going to have the latest as the metropolitan police drop their investigation into betting on the date of the general election. remember that lots of mps caught out with that one. but first, the . news. but first, the. news. >> good afternoon. your headunes >> good afternoon. your headlines at 2:30 pm. the family of mike and hannah lynch,

who died after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of sicily, have said they are devastated and in shock. that's to according a spokesperson. 18 year old hannah became the final missing passenger to be recovered from the wreckage of the bayesian superyacht. family have also released a photograph of mr lynch and his 18 year old daughter. six bodies have been found in the search of the wreckage, taking the number of confirmed deaths to seven. households face higher energy bills this winter after ofgem increased the price cap to an average £1,717 from october. that's adding around £12 a month to the average bill. ofgem said that the 10% rise was largely due to higher wholesale gas pnces. due to higher wholesale gas prices . the funeral of elsie dot prices. the funeral of elsie dot stancombe, who died in the southport attack, took place today as her parents released a new photo of their truly unforgettable daughter. the

seven year old was one of three girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in the merseyside town last month. her family said they want today to be known as elsie's special day, and a celebration of her life . and a celebration of her life. former bbc presenter jermaine jenas says he's speaking to his lawyers after being sacked by the corporation, amid allegations he sent unsolicited messages to a female colleague. the former premier league player said there were two sides to every story after his axing , every story after his axing, adding that he is not happy and will be taking legal advice. and flights have been cancelled and drivers urged to take care as storm lilian sweeps across parts of the uk. ahead of what could be the busiest august bank houday be the busiest august bank holiday on the roads on record, strong winds of up to 80 miles an hour are forecast, with travel disruption , flooding, travel disruption, flooding, power cuts and dangerous conditions near coastal areas likely. meanwhile, two stages at leeds festival have closed for the day. that's due to high

winds caused by the storm. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward alerts

>> right, okay, it's 236. you're watching and listening to good afternoon britain now martin daubney is up at 3:00 and i'm sure he's got a hell of a show lined up for you. what is coming up on this friday afternoon, then? martin >> yeah. hi, guys. i'm looking ahead to labour's early release nightmare . nightmare. >> we were contacted by a mother here @gbnews this week whose son was killed. manslaughter charge, 30 months was given out. that

killer will be released after serving a paltry 40% of that term. the mother is distraught. her local parliamentarian is trying to intervene with the justice ministers. what kind of country do we live in where murderers and killers are released early, and people who threw rocks at police wrongly are intercepted at airports and put in jail for longer than this guy 9°t put in jail for longer than this guy got longer sentences for posting facebook posts . over posting facebook posts. over 3700 criminals are set to be released across september and october. does that pose a huge threat to the british public today? a story came out where they are saying, don't put people in jail, the jails are full. unless of course, they attended a riot. unless of course they are far right . course they are far right. unless of course they are against immigration. two tier justice seems to be gripping our nation, and now it's getting to the point where killers are let out early. victims families left traumatised. is this the new template of what we can expect

in britain, and is that something that we should be very, very concerned about? i'll be discussing that 3 to 6 pm. >> well, martin, i mean , if >> well, martin, i mean, if you're a victim of a crime and you're a victim of a crime and you see the perpetrator of that crime against you or a family member let out early, you're going to be very angry indeed. thank you. look forward to your show. martin daubney up at 3:00 till 6:00. as always . absolutely. >> now police have caught two dogs. they are searching for, which are believed to have attacked a man found dead in the back garden of a property in birmingham. yes, a 33 year old man who was looking after his brother's dogs was found dead in hereford close, rubery , on hereford close, rubery, on wednesday with dog bite mark injuries. well we're joined now by the co—owner of bulldog. bullied and sun dog training, stephen bullard. stephen, thank you and welcome to the program. this struck me as odd because these are american bulldogs, which is different from the banned breed, which is the xl bully . bully. >> well, they're very similar, aren't they? this is the problem

with the ban on on american xl bullies, >> it's a type of dog rather than a specific breed, and it really has developed over a penod really has developed over a period of decades from the original ban on the pit bull terrier. >> they developed through chance or luck or deliberately, a completely different type of breed . we've had a number of breed. we've had a number of these kind of dogs come to stay for us for training over a penod for us for training over a period of time. we tend to not take them now, and the hybridisation means that they're some of the dogs may not even be of the type, but they can still be dangerous. >> and what would you do with these dogs? you know, the owners of these dogs , they'll often. of these dogs, they'll often. i mean, we've spoken to many owners of bully xls, for example, and they'll say it's all about the person who looks after the dog. it's all about the owner, the dogs. they're

absolutely fine as long as you treat them in the correct way. but what would you do with these dogs who clearly can cause a huge amount of damage ? huge amount of damage? >> well, this is this is the problem and they can be very nice, very nice dogs , the best nice, very nice dogs, the best protection is legislation. so the route that we've gone down, that should mean that over a penod that should mean that over a period of time, the breed will reduce. and the number of incidents that we experience with this kind of dog will gradually become become less , gradually become become less, obviously, if the wrong kind of owner gets one of these dogs and, and they do this deliberately, you know, they, the people that end up with the nice ones tend to end up with the nice ones by accident. and the nice ones by accident. and the people that end up with the ones that aren't so nice, they end up with those ones deliberately. >> so, stephen, are you suggesting that we need legislation on american bulldogs as well as xl bullies ?

as well as xl bullies? >> well, this is the thing . all >> well, this is the thing. all all large breed bulldogs , will all large breed bulldogs, will have that kind of potential. so they're not all like it , they're not all like it, obviously, but you're showing me one there and some of these we had one of the last ones we took in was a bulldog hybrid with a rhodesian ridgeback. if that dog and that dog was dangerous, and the people that bought me that dog for training, i suggested that they send it back where where they'd got it from. now that dog, if it was seized by the police, that dog would come back as fully okay because it had the wrong measurements. so it would have been perfectly okay and perfectly legal. could have gone around the streets, wouldn't have needed to be on lead and wouldn't have needed to have been muzzled. so this is the kind of fatal flaw with the current legislation is, is that

it probably doesn't spread its net quite wide enough. yeah. >> stephen, am i right in thinking that you no longer work with these types of dogs? just because they're they can be so dangerous ? dangerous? >> yeah, i it's just a choice. i mean, we've got a kennel full of dogs out here now that are all aggressive because any dog can be aggressive and any dog can be dangerous through through being aggressive. so breed isn't, it's the sheer capacity for these dogs. the danger that they, they can present when they , when they can present when they, when they kick off. and if you end up in trouble with one of these big dogs or in this case, somebody ended up in trouble with three of these dogs, to be honest, they haven't got a they haven't got a hope in hell . got a hope in hell. >> really. so. so, stephen, you're saying if the dogs kick off as you, as you say, there's

nothing really you can do about it to fend them off, is there, is there nothing that you can do to try and calm the dog down? >> yeah . i mean, if you were to >> yeah. i mean, if you were to if you were to become a little bit more passive, which would be easier said than done if you were in a garden with three dogs that are over a row stimulated and they're biting at you, being calm probably is going to be very, very difficult. but the more you agitate the dogs, you will further arouse the dogs and then make them potentially more , then make them potentially more, you know, more aggressive and more dangerous. >> stephen, would you go as far as to say that some of these dogs should just be put down, that they're irredeemable? >> well, well , obviously, >> well, well, obviously, clearly that is the case, because that is how the law is, is worded. if your dog will is seized by the police under the dangerous dogs act and this this new legislation, it will be

assessed and if it is dangerous, you will have a hell of a job getting your dog dog back and ultimately , after a long period ultimately, after a long period of time, as it tends to go on for a very, very long period of time. the dog would be euthanized and sometimes for some dogs, that would be the best. that would be the best option. you know, they if they're that dangerous, people are living with dogs , that can are living with dogs, that can go on to become dangerous. a lot of the, if we go back over the last few years, a lot of the fatalities in recent years have been by dogs that were known or owned by the people that they went on to kill. yeah. now, if you turn on their owners. >> stephen, i'm really sorry, but we've really enjoyed our conversation. but we have to end it there. but stephen bullard, really great to speak to you, co—owner of bullard and son, dog training. oh, goodness me. gosh. >> let's see if the government

comes up with more legislation on that one. this is good afternoon britain on gb news coming up , a afternoon britain on gb news coming up, a window cleaner is battling to prove he has the only portraits of william shakespeare made in his lifetime. but how much is it worth? find out how much it could be worth after this

welcome back. it's 248. a window cleaner is battling to prove he has the only portrait of william shakespeare made in his lifetime. >> yes. so, owner steven wadlow has been trying to validate the painting for years. he's had it x—rayed . he's had it analysed by x—rayed. he's had it analysed by experts. he's had it scientifically dated back to 1595, when the playwright was 31 years old. if it is the bard, it could be worth north of £200 million. gosh. >> well, we're pleased to say

the window cleaner and owner of the window cleaner and owner of the painting, steve, joins us now. steve, welcome to gb news. first of all, just explain how you came to have this painting in your possession . in your possession. >> yes. hello. thank you for thank you for inviting me, well, my dad , acquired it in the mid my dad, acquired it in the mid 1960s, because he had an art and antique business in harrow , and, antique business in harrow, and, he tried to sell it on, but was told he paid too much for it and, brought it home and hung it on the wall. >> so hang on, if you've had it, if you've had this piece x—rayed, you've had it analysed by our experts. you've had it dated back to 1595. how come you haven't had it 100% proven that it is, in fact , william shakespeare? >> yeah. well, that's that's that's the million dollar question, really? >> in a way, isn't it? $200 million. well, who knows ? but. million. well, who knows? but. so what what what's happened? is it was sat there all my lifetime sort of thing while i was

growing up, above the television in the corner . and we didn't in the corner. and we didn't think anything of it. and it was only back about 12 years ago that, a visitor, who was sort of into the art and art and literature as well, she said, oh, i think it looks like william shakespeare or, you know, i like your copy of william shakespeare and was shocked to see it was an original painting of the period , original painting of the period, and so it was only then that i started researching and of course, having no interest in shakespeare before that, it was, it took me a little while to get into it and to get rolling with it. and, learning everything about shakespeare and the art of the period and things like that. and then over the over this penod and then over the over this period of time, working as well, of course , different of course, different institutions have , have, helped institutions have, have, helped with the x rays and all the rest of it. and the first thing was to, to, to confirm that it was actually genuine to the period which is, which has been done . which is, which has been done. but then is it actually

shakespeare? well, all the facial and facial comparisons , facial and facial comparisons, technology, everything like that all matches with the droeshout, which is the only known 2d image of shakespeare. and, who who do you go to find that out? you know, we're sort of in a way , know, we're sort of in a way, not fighting, but fighting the shakespeare, the shakespeare world and the art world at the same sort of time. and who are we to say that? that's not to say some are not being very helpful, because of course, all the images we are used to of seeing the bard, william shakespeare, is the one we can see on our screens on the left how. >> now. >> but the painting you have, which is that the painting behind you in your short shot there, steven? >> yes. so this is the painting behind me at home. but this is actually a copy because the genuine one, of course, is in safe storage now. >> oh, i see. okay. fair enough. if it's worth £200 million, i can't. i absolutely can understand why, but this image, if it was painted during william shakespeare's lifetime, that would suggest that the other

images in existence, which were all painted after the bard's death, were kind of copied or based off of this painting that you have, >> not necessarily . and i >> not necessarily. and i wouldn't be so conceited to say that this is i know it's been said, but this is the only portrait of william shakespeare. what we do know is this is this is a portrait of the period. and we do know pretty sure that it is a painting from life. we're saying that we need to have this discussed further and even more technical. you know, more technical. you know, more technical research done on it. as much as possible, for certain reasons, which would take too long to, to describe now. but, but, i mean, steven, you've been you say that there's a, you've had a bit of a battle with the, with the art world. >> i mean , there's a suggestion >> i mean, there's a suggestion in the sun's write up of this story, that that you've been struggling to be heard in the academic world, the lofty art world. it's all a bit snooty. it's about who you know. and you're a tradesman. >> yes, yes, that is definitely

true to in some avenues. but then i have to say, it's lovely to be able to have this opportunity to say it. there's others. there's other people in that in that world, that have been fabulous , so you know, it, been fabulous, so you know, it, but it's taken a long time to sort of get listened to and i mean, even our website's called is this william shakespeare? we're not being so conceited as to say it is william shakespeare . to say it is william shakespeare. i'm sure it is. but we want the discussion out there because all the evidence that we've got, which people would have to look at and then not think, i'm totally mad and is backed by other people helping , indicates other people helping, indicates that this really should be discussed. that's not to say that the chandos in the national portrait gallery isn't william shakespeare, but even if even they don't know that that is 100% put forward, you put forward a very compelling case. >> i'll be watching this space, that's for sure. and it's a good thing you haven't sold it off yet. if it could be worth so much as steve wadlow. thank you very much indeed. owner of this painting and also a window cleaner. so there you go.

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